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Cisco Chapter 1 review

Cisco Chapter 1 review

Question 1 of 37

What are two factors that must be considered when choosing a computer case (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

The size of the monitor

The vendor that manufactured the motherboard

The number of external or internal drive locations.

The size of the motherboard and the power supply

The number of LED indicators at the front of the case.

Question 2 of 37

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What are the two connector types for the 1394a interface? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

2-pin

4-pin

6-pin

8-pin

9-pin

15-pin

Question 3 of 37

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What is a function of a KVM switch?

Select one or more of the following:

Digitizes an image or document and sends the information to multiple computers

Stores images from both digital still cameras and digital video cameras on magnetic media

Provides capability to share a keyboard, a mouse, USB devices, and speakers with multiple computers.

Provides biometric identification to an individual user by the use of fingerprints, voice recognition, or a retinal scan

Question 4 of 37

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A student has passed the CompTIA A+ Certification exam. Based on this passing score, for which job is the student now qualified?

Select one or more of the following:

network associate

security technician

network technician

network professional

PC hardware and software technician

Question 5 of 37

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Which type of ROM can be reprogrammed with software while it is still physically installed in the computer?

Select one or more of the following:

EEPROM

EPROM

PROM

ROM

Question 6 of 37

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Which type of computer resources are direct lines to the processor and are used by computer components to request attention from the CPU?

Select one or more of the following:

DMAs

I/O addresses

IRQs

Memory addresses

Question 7 of 37

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Which three devices are considered output devices? (Choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

fingerprint scanner

headphones

keyboard

monitor

mouse

printer

Question 8 of 37

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Which technology would be best to use for drive redundancy and data protection?

Select one or more of the following:

CD

DVD

PATA

RAID

SCSI

Question 9 of 37

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Which two devices are considered input devices (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

Biometric authentication device

printer

digital camera

projector

speakers

Question 10 of 37

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Which two form factors are commonly used to build a new computer? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

BTX

NLQ

ATX

CLV

ECC

Question 11 of 37

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What is the function of a fan on top of a heat sink?

Select one or more of the following:

to cool the memory modules

to move the heat away from the CPU

to draw cool air into the computer case

to provide a water-cooling system for extremely fast CPUs.

Question 12 of 37

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Which important feature is offered by the USB standard?

Select one or more of the following:

A single USB connection to a computer can support up to 255 separate devices.

It offers rates of around 580 Mb/sec in low-speed mode.

It allows up to 920 Mb/sec in the 2.0 version.

It can supply power from the computer to devices.

Question 13 of 37

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Which three system resources are commonly used for communication between the CPU or memory and other components in the computer? (choose three.)

Select one or more of the following:

IRQ

DMA

UDP

I/O address

USB

PnP

Question 14 of 37

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Which memory module has a front side bus speed of 200 Mhz?

Select one or more of the following:

DDR-333

DDR-400

DDR3-667

PC100 SDRAM

Question 15 of 37

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A technician receives a complaint of poor image quality after the user changes the native resolution. While investigating the complaint, the technician discovers there is a mismatch between native mode and the native resolution of the peripheral. Which item is configured incorrectly?

Select one or more of the following:

DLP

LCD

printer

scanner

Question 16 of 37

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What is a function of the operating system in a computer?

Select one or more of the following:

It defines the physical components in the computer.

It instructs the computer how to process information

It provides instructions on how to access the Internet.

It identifies the type of firmware that is installed in the computer

Question 17 of 37

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A technician creates a simple circuit that has a 9 V light bulb attached to a 9 V battery. The power output of the light bulb is 100 W. Which equation should be used to calculate how much current in amps is required to achieve the full 100 W output from the 9 V bulb.

Select one or more of the following:

I=P/V= 100W/9V=11.11A

I=P*V=100W*9V=900A

I=(P/2)*V=100W*(9V + 9V)= 8100A

I=P*2*V=100W*(9V+9V)= 8100A

Question 18 of 37

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Refer to the exhibit. Based on the advertisement that is shown, what is the native resolution of this computer system?

Select one or more of the following:

8x

3 GB

2.0 GHz

1919 MB

1280 x 800

13.35 x 9.57

Question 19 of 37

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Which IEEE standard defines the FireWire technology?

Select one or more of the following:

1284

1394

1451

1539

Question 20 of 37

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How many FireWire devices can be supported by a single FireWire port?

Select one or more of the following:

12

25

32

54

63

127

Question 21 of 37

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Which type of memory is primarily used as cache memory?

Select one or more of the following:

DRAM

RAM

ROM

SRAM

Question 22 of 37

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Which two considerations would be of the greatest importance when building a workstation that will run multiple virtual machines? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

High-end sound card

number of CPU cores

water cooling

powerful video card

amount of RAM

Question 23 of 37

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A user playing a game on a gaming PC with a standard EIDE 5400 RPM hard drive finds the performance unsatisfactory. Which hard drive upgrade would improve performance while providing more reliability and using less power?

Select one or more of the following:

a 7200 RPM SATA hard drive

a 7200 RPM EIDE hard drive

an SSD

a 10,000 RPM SATA hard drive

Question 24 of 37

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Which hardware upgrade would allow the processor in a gaming PC to provide the optimal gaming performance?

Select one or more of the following:

a fast EIDE drive

large amounts of fast RAM

liquid cooling

a high capacity external hard drive.

Question 25 of 37

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Which two storage devices use a magnetic medium for storing data? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

tape drive

solid state drive

hard disk drive

compact disk drive

blue-ray disk drive

Question 26 of 37

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Refer to the exhibit. Which type of adapter is shown?

Select one or more of the following:

network interface

sound

video

RAID

Question 27 of 37

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Which component controls the communications and interactions between the CPU and other components on the motherboard?

Select one or more of the following:

RAM

CMOS

chipset

BIOS

Question 28 of 37

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Which two pieces of information are needed before selecting a power supply?

Select one or more of the following:

the total wattage of all components

the voltage requirements of peripheral devices

the form factor of the case

the type of CPU

the installed operating system

Question 29 of 37

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(picture)

Select one or more of the following:

just

remember

the

chart (click this one for credit)

Question 30 of 37

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Which unit of measurement is used to indicate the hard drive speed?

Select one or more of the following:

pages per minute

gigabytes

revolutions per minute

clusters per minute

Question 31 of 37

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Refer to the exhibit. Which type of video card expansion slot is depicted?

Select one or more of the following:

PCIe

ISA

PCI

AGP

Question 32 of 37

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What type of connector can be used to connect an eSATA interface to an external SATA drive?

Select one or more of the following:

7-pin connector

9-pin connector

15-pin connector

5-pin connector

Question 33 of 37

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Where can the input voltage selection be changed from 110 volts to 220 volts on a computer system?

Select one or more of the following:

on the motherboard

in the BIOS

on the back of the power supply

in the operating system control panel.

Question 34 of 37

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(picture)

Select one or more of the following:

just

remember

the

picture (click this one for credit)

Question 35 of 37

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Refer to the exhibit. Which type of cable is shown in the graphic?

Select one or more of the following:

USB

parallel

FireWire

serial

Question 36 of 37

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Which two activities are normally controlled by the Northbridge part of the chipset? (Choose two.)

Select one or more of the following:

communication between the CPU and the sound card.)

communication between the CPU and the hard drive

access to the RAM

communication between the CPU and the I/O ports

access to the video card

Question 37 of 37

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A technician looks at a motherboard and sees a 24-pin connector. What components would connect to the motherboard through the use of this 24-pin connector?